My father found this when he as a kid back on Long Island in the woods. Wish I could find items like this. I have it in the house and wonder if I should clean it or put a protectent on it. Are thre any case yo can buy for somehing like this and hang it up? Do any of you guys or girls know exacty what type of sord this is rom the Civil War?

Just checked my sources and Roby contracted for 12,500 of these. "F.S.S." is the US inspectors mark and stands for Frederic S. Strong.

scott

blunderbuss2, 2 years agoSure am glad you came up with that scott. At first glance, I was thinking musicians sword but then noticed the "butterfly" on the guard.

dempseycollector, 2 years agoI was actually told it was a Musicians sword a while ago I think. I looked one up and it does look like it. What Butterfly?

blunderbuss2, 2 years agoToday has been F.U. because of painting where modem is. This is the last time I'm going to type this out! Scott has it right I'm sure. The "butterfly" I refer to is the flattish overlapping ovals in the hand guard next to the blade. I had forgotten totally about there being an NCO dress sword but after his post, a cloudy memory was telling me scott was right. Just don't remember them going back that far. I have a lot of cloudy memory & friends have pointed it out to me. Of course I don't remember who they are so maybe they were strangers who don't know what they are talking about.